Out In The Garden With Bob Ewing

Meet another extraordinary gardener who writes passionately about his garden experiences and also gets cooking in his garden — let’s take a look at what’s cooking in Bob Ewing’s garden.

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All In The Plant Family - The Poppy Family

Few gardeners would not be able to instantly recognize this member of the plant family, for poppies have been popular for generations.

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Nature's Spring Fling

Who among us, does not have a soft spot for certain spring time flowers, a special garden path, or tree?

cuckoo pintThe month of March brings on nature’s ever popular spring fling, prompting visits to local garden nurseries, garden centers, while garden seed catalogs start to over stuff our mail boxes and inboxes. Now, more than any other time of the year, it’s a glorious time for renewal of “the dream.”

Early spring, is a time when every gardener around the world dreams the same dream — of warmth filled days, and the joy of seeing first new leaves and flowers emerging, showing us green and color to ease us out of our wintertime doldrums. There in those visual moments, springs forth visions of a lovely garden, even if it only exists in our minds or memories due to space, time constraints, or life circumstances. Lovely gardens are some of the most phenomenal of places, where inspiration begins in the human heart and mind. We each deserve and need a lovely garden in our lives.

Today, I’m sitting here on a fine spring day, looking at the great glossy green arrow-shaped leaves of the perennial cuckoo-pint plant, that has broken through the earth in one of my gardens. For those of you who aren’t familiar with this unique perennial plant, I should note here, that there is an old English explanation for the cuckoo-pint name, that I’ll leave out of this discussion.

What I will tell you is that at first,

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